- order Heliozoa
- nounmostly freshwater protozoa• Syn: ↑Heliozoa• Hypernyms: ↑animal order• Member Holonyms: ↑Actinopoda, ↑subclass Actinopoda• Member Meronyms: ↑heliozoan
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order Heliozoa
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Heliozoa — noun mostly freshwater protozoa • Syn: ↑order Heliozoa • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Actinopoda, ↑subclass Actinopoda • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Heliozoa — He li*o*zo a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? the sun + zo^,on an animal.] (Zo[ o]l.) An order of fresh water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Heliozoa — Amoeboid Protozoa, Order Heliozoida. They are generally free floating, spherical cells with many straight, slender microtubule supported pseudopods radiating from the cell body like a sunburst. These modified pseudopods are termed axopodia.… … Dictionary of molecular biology
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
heliozoan — noun protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods • Hypernyms: ↑actinopod • Member Holonyms: ↑Heliozoa, ↑order Heliozoa * * * adjective or noun see heliozoa * * * /hee lee euh zoh euhn/, n … Useful english dictionary
Actinopoda — noun heliozoans; radiolarians • Syn: ↑subclass Actinopoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Sarcodina, ↑class Sarcodina • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
subclass Actinopoda — noun heliozoans; radiolarians • Syn: ↑Actinopoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Sarcodina, ↑class Sarcodina • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
heliozoan — /hee lee euh zoh euhn/, n. 1. a protozoan of the order Heliozoa, having a spherical body and radiating pseudopods. adj. 2. Also, heliozoic /hee lee euh zoh ik/. belonging or pertaining to the Heliozoa. [1890 95; < NL Heliozo(a) name of the group… … Universalium
heliozoan — noun Any of a group of aquatic protozoans, of the order Heliozoa, that have spherical bodies from which radiate spindlelike pseudopods … Wiktionary
heliozoan — he•li•o•zo•an [[t]ˌhi li əˈzoʊ ən[/t]] n. 1) ivt any protozoan of the order Heliozoa, having a spherical body and radiating pseudopodia 2) ivt Also, he li•o•zo′ic. of or pertaining to the heliozoans • Etymology: 1890–95; < NL Heliozo(a) (see… … From formal English to slang
